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October 2010 : Kruger National Park, South Africa
Temperature
Average Minimum:16°C (61°F)
Average Maximum:32°C (90°F)
Minimum Recorded:13°C (55°F)
Maximum Recorded:44°C (111°F)
Rainfall
For the period:1 mm (0 in)
For the year to date:361 mm (14 in)
A dust-devil dances across the Central Depression as heat waves ripple like the waters of a never-ending lake. Temperatures shoot up to well above forty degrees Celsius. The sparsely foliated vegetation leaves very little shelter from the incessant heat. Out here there is one need greater than everything else, one power that shapes the lives of its inhabitants regardless of the soaring heat. Water. Every day, great herds of zebra, wildebeest, impala and elephant travel across the Lebombo Mountains and open knob-thorn savannahs to the last remaining water sources. They can cover over twenty kilometers a day in search of this precious liquid. By mid-morning the waterholes are heaving with life as animals slake their thirsts. Predators are also abundant at the water holes, as they know through experience that there will be food in abundance.
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Kruger National Park, South Africa
Articles by Marlon du Toit and James Suter
Photographs shot on location by Marlon du Toit and James Suter
31 October 2010
